Battlefield V - Mercury Map Official Reveal Trailer - Videos for the 97.4%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy_aIYfskuU

Took them long enough. While the year-long process of a BF game being refined to a playable release state is normal at this point, they really needed to add actual maps for a long while now. As for the map itself, I fucking love the bright colors. A nice fuck you to the trope of WW2 being covered in brown mucus the whole 6 years from 1939-45.

I think its just me but I feel like maps that get released after the game release look and play alot better. If you look at older titles such as BF3 & 4 that have so much map variety it is really fun to play. While BF5 got boring for me after awhile. It has 9 maps only but it feels like its only 5 of them. tbh if bf v was a proper game and would follow the same release cycle as older titles. I wouldnt mind buying premium for those ~20 maps.

Problem with Premium though is that its Premium; those new maps will very quickly die out in a month and will never appear in the server browser again until DICE inevitably gives the DLCs out for free like BF4 and BF1. I got BF1's Premium for only 10 bucks and I still feel a bit stung by how the Tsar DLC died in 2 months while Turning Tides died in just 1.5 months here in Asia.

Battlefield V worth buying?

It's always fun to see all the creative and fun maps be released and then years later 90% of the servers are 24/7 metro and caspian borders. Fortunately there's usually one or two reliable servers that rotate through gamemodes and maps from all expansions.

Probably best to wait until either the end of Summer or after the Pacific release in Fall to gauge what their ramped up content schedule is like.

For 30 bucks yeah, it's a not-bad deal as this time around, it's not just a BF1 reskin unlike BF4 AKA BF3: China Edition. The core gameplay is p good. Severely unfinished and rushed though. Probably will be truly complete by this fall with the Pacific Theater.

It's in a situation where the gameplay is fine, but there's not enough meat on its bones to justify it for many people and DICE are even gradually going back on some of their big gameplay changes they specifically brought to the table with this entry. They've been padding the shit out of actual fresh content by tossing out a new gun and challenges repeatedly, and occasionally pushing out game modes to vary up the map design for a selection of maps that are both thin and very hit-or-miss.

a lot of the guns in BFV are just reskins of other ones or ones from BF1 too which is pretty fucking disappointing.

the recoil changes, alone make it worth it. But I would wait till there's actual content on the table, atm 5ish maps gets extremely boring after 50+ hours.

That's always going to be an issue when you want to bloat gun selection though. BF4 was worse as the spread mechanics basically meant that if you were to master one weapon, you'd basically accidentally also master every other weapon that's slightly below or above the original gun's rate of fire. BF4's samey guns were half the reason why I got burnt out by it so often. BF1 managed to get away from clone guns thanks to a mix of WW1 being a super weird experimental playground of infantry weapons along with the unpopular spread mechanics and gunplay allowing each gun to fill a pretty tight niche. To BFV's credit, the last few guns added this season legitimately shook up their classes' average core gameplay style like this week's Boys AT rifle for Recon or the funky Commando Carbine for Medic. That said, the very simple yet satisfying gunplay will inevitably result in overlap and clone guns.

That is a really nice looking map ngl. Still wish they had some sort of historical mode so you were restricted to certain vehicles/weapons on some maps.

Once the free rental server program comes along we'll probably be seeing a lot more custom modes with this kind of thing

The synaesthesia sound design in this trailer was really well done. Is this meant to be on Malta, Crete or Greece perhaps? I saw a 110 with its radar antennae on it which implies Germany but this clearly isn't Germany so I assume it's just due to how battlefield games tend to have random hodgepodges of equipment.

Yeah, that's just the hodge-podge of equipment in an 'early-war' setting. It's supposed to be Operation Mercury, the invasion of Crete.

Buy origin access for a month, try it out. If you don't like it, you at least have other stuff to enjoy. In my opinion BF5 lost it's novelty after the month, and I honestly had to say I was glad I didn't actually pay for it. I paid the 15bux for orgin access to get everything else.

I still can't play this game on lowest settings and I have no clue why

tfw bf1 had more content on launch then what bf5 had